Code4Lib 2017 Conference Committees

Call for Volunteers coming soon.

Hosting a conference is incredibly complex, and it cannot be done without the help of the entire community. If you are interested in being an awesome person and applying your skills to a particular part of the Code4Lib 2017 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (please provide a contact). Each committee must have a Primary Contact (chair), Secondary Contact (co-chair), and Documentarian (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. Feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact (LPC) to each committee.

Location and Dates

Location: Southern California

Dates: Coming soon

Pre-conferences: Coming Soon

Main meeting: Coming Soon

Post conference activities: Coming Soon

Local Planning Committee

This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.

Website Working Group

This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).

Sponsorship Committee

This group will focus on making sure all who want to support the conference have the opportunity to do so. Sponsorship Committee work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.

Keynote Committee

This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.

Program Committee

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. This includes soliciting regular talks. These folks will also manage the flow of the program at the conference -- introducing speakers or soliciting other volunteers to MC.

Scholarship Committee

This committee works with funding institutions to arrange the scholarships offered. They solicit submissions and select winners of the scholarship(s). They also work with the winners to plan their travel and arrangements.

Childcare Committee

This group assess the need for childcare at the conference, organizes childcare options, determines cost, and liaises with parents and chilcare providers

Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair

Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)

Your Name Here - Documentarian

Your Name Here - Volunteer

T-Shirt Committee

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes. This committee is also responsible for helping the local planning committee identify a vendor that will fit within the budget constraints for the conference. User sizes and preferences will be obtained as part of the registration process.

Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair

Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)

Your Name Here - Documentarian

Your Name Here - Volunteer

Onsite Volunteer Committee

This committee wrangles tributes people to volunteer for the following duties:

Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair

Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)

Your Name Here - Documentarian

Your Name Here - Volunteer

Social Activities

This committee works closely with the local programming committee in organizing events outside of conference hours. This committee is in charge of organizing the Newcomer Dinner (traditionally held the night before the first day of the main conference) as well as ensuring that there is a variety of different events to cater to different interests (alcoholic/non-alcoholic, carnivore/vegan, mainstream/niche, and everything in between).

Streaming Video Committee

With the local program committee(as appropriate), organize the streaming and archiving of presentations at the conference. This could include securing A/V equipment, working with the conference venue w/r/t AV needs, choosing streaming and archiving providers, post-production editing and posting of videos, securing speaker releases for recording talks (?), and, of course, actually running the camera during the conference.

Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair

Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)

Your Name Here - Documentarian

Your Name Here - Volunteer

Code4Lib 2017 Host Voting Committee

This committee organizes the call for hosts for the next annual code4lib conference as well as the voting process.

Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair

Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)

Your Name Here - Documentarian

Your Name Here - Volunteer

Wifi/Electrical

Arguably the most important committee. Coordinates with the local programming committee and the conference venue to ensure that wifi will be functioning for 450 people x 3 to 4 wifi enabled devices per person... as well as ensuring that there is ample power for folks to plug said devices in at the conference. Note that this will largely be handled by the conference management company.

Book Giveaway Committee

This committee solicits free copies of books from various publishers or free keys/copies of programs from various companies (for example, free private repo from Github or license for oXygen). They also handle the raffle at the conference (with a randomizer to do the drawing of names).

Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair

Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)

Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)

Your Name Here - Documentarian

Your Name Here - Volunteer

IRC & Slack Committee

Coordinate with freenode to ensure that the #code4lib IRC & Slack channels can handle the extra traffic during the conference. Also responsible for recruiting and advertising IRC helpers at the conference.